Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - January 3, 1953, Winnipeg, Manitoba Freedom of Trade Liberty of religion Equality of civil rights Winnipeg free press printed published the Winnipeg free pm company limited so Carlton Street Start per Manitoba authorized Ai second. Jan matter by the Post Holce department Ottawa. Victor Sifton k. S. Malone president it Publ her vice present Grant. Dexter we. In Ord editor general manages Winnipeg january 3. 1953 filling in the background r the new year season has brought the usual flood of speeches from leading officials of the Canadian Pacific railway in favor of higher freight rates. Or. W. A. Mather president and or. Norman Crump vice president Jive been particularly vocal. Nor has the Canadian National been silent. Or. Donald Gordon president of the National notably in his address to the Ottawa Canadian club Early last month added his voice to the others. Higher freight rates As advocated today by spokesmen for the railways Are not a specific but a generic term. They de sire net Only higher maximum rates on Ordinary freight but the abrogation of the Crow s nest pass agreement and a Sharp increase in the rates on Grain and flour moving to the head of the lakes and the Pacific coast. No one will criticize the railways merely for seeking higher freight rates. They should understand however that their tendency to scold Western Canada for obstructing their desires causes irritation. The West contrary to railway propaganda has never taken the position that there should be no increases in rates. The West has been the victim of unjust rate discrimination Ever since railways were built and Down the years has struggled with Only partial Success to have this discrimination removed. In Eastern Canada no one troubles _ about percentage in creases in maximum rates. Indeed Ontario and Quebec alone among the provinces have not even bothered to be represented before the transport Board in the series of rate increase cases which began in the fall of 1946 and still continues. And the reason is that in the main the people in Central Canada do not pay maximum freight rates. They pay the lower competitive rates. Only Here in the West where Competition is Lack ing do we pay maximum rates the rates which Are subject to these percentage increases. Thus the West s position on in creases is Clear. First equalize rates East and West and then if the railways can demonstrate that they need More Money let the effective rates be raised generally throughout the. Apart from1 this the speeches of or. Mather and or. Crump especially or. Mather Are notable for special pleading. To illustrate or. Mather makes out a Case for higher rates by selecting just those factors which Are favourable to the railways the reference is to the printed text of his address at Toronto on december he compares the costs of railway purchases in 1951 with 1939. Wages he says Are up 102 3 per cent and materials 96.4 per cent. The effective increase in freight rates meanwhile was but 46.4 per cent. In 1929 he says the railways received in freight Revenue 56.20 for every of goods and services produced in Canada against in 1951. Here or Mather concedes that the National output was three and a half times greater in 1951 than 1929. But apart from this gleam of Light the speech is really no More than propaganda for higher freight rates. Under the circumstances it May be permissible to fill in some of the background which or. Mather neglects. As every business Man knows volume is of the utmost importance in making a profit. Or. Mather compares 1939 with 1951. The tonnage of freight carried in these years was 000 in 1939 and in 1951. Freight Revenue was 979 000 in 1939 and in 1951. The average tons per loaded car a vital Factor in the railway business increased substantially. Or. Mather s figures on income include Only the net railways. In 1951 this was there is no mention of the Canadian Pacific s net income from its subsidiaries the so called other this other in come in 1951 was no less than for reasons which May be understandable but in fact do Small credit to the . The company Over the past six years has endeavoured to fasten the whole Burden of its costs of maintenance operation and dividends on freight Revenue. This is a Clear break with the past. Never under either sir Thomas Shaughnessy or sir Edward Beatty did the . Suggest that other income should not be taken into account in calculating the Revenue needs of the company. Indeed sir Thomas Shaughnessy in his annual report to the shareholders on May 1, 1918, publicly took credit for the fact that the subsidiaries had been built up out of the railway revenues for the single purpose of strengthening the railway company. It is the fact that one of the most valuable of the . Subsidiaries the lands with their Oil rights were Given to the company by parliament on condition that the resulting profit should be used to equip maintain and operate the railway. These Are the precise words of the statute. The notion that the . Can now pocket annually some of income derived from these subsidiaries while loading All the costs of equipment maintenance operation and dividends upon the Public by Means of Ever higher freight rates will never be accepted in Western Canada. Or. Mather s attack nest pass rates which seem to be part of a Well organized Campaign to destroy this agree ment will be discussed on another cutting Down exports to the United kingdom and shipping chilled and Frozen meats to the United states where prices Are higher. The solution most favored is to increase Home production As much As possible and to enlarge exports to the Dollar countries so that greater purchases of meat May be made there. One certainly recently or Frederick Allen editor of brought out his latest volume m the social history of states. In the United kingdom a similar tendency to dredge up the past and expose it to the cold Light of today May be observed Andre Siegfried the French historian is the source of a quo tation from Disraeli which qualifies for this record of disenchantment in the 1870 s Disraeli in a Public speech declared that the wealth of England had then reached such Gigantic proportions that it was. Inconceivable that any future War or. Other disturbance could materially affect her affluence and dominant Poseidon in the world a further exhibit is the follow ing excerpt from an address of or. Arthur Balfour then prime minister at the lord mayor s banquet held at London on no vember 9, 1902. My lords and i know not that any danger with in the Ken of human vision men aces in the smallest degree that peace which it should be Pur Earnest Endeavor to apparently the one certainty in this world is that our future is inscrutable unknowable arid unpredictable. Ottawa note the Federal government at Ottawa might Well note and Emu late the efforts of the Church ill government to economize. The Churchill government does not take the line that no Sav Ings on Ordinary government account Are possible. It is put Ting the axe to every expenditure which can be dispensed with. The latest economies Are being made in the diplomatic service. Five posts have been suspended and saved. Further sub Stantial savings Are promised. World War ii in referring recently to the casualties in world War ii the free press was surprised to discover that no official figures Are available. Inquiry at the Bureau of statistics at Ottawa brought the information that the forthcoming edition of the can Ada year Book 1952-53 to be published under the Editorship of or. C. Cecil Lingard Well know i in Western Canada will. Contain these figures. Or. Lin Gard has supplied an advanced had been wounded. These figures Are exceedingly interesting. In world War i More than Canadian s were killed although the duration of hostilities was briefer and fewer troops we re engaged. The great bulk of the casualties in the first world War fell upon the infantry whereas it will be noted that in the recent War almost As. Many airmen As army ranks fell. Text which is As follows Navy air Force army killed Wou Clec 319 of the total killed s.631 were other than Battle fatalities. A a total of prisoners of War were repatriated of Widm. . Meat Supply the Scarcity of meat in the United kingdom is graphically described in the following table source Argentine Australia new zealand others total imports Home output pre War 1951 in "000 tons 436 195 257 152 87 67 275 86 515 941 Canadian Trade Mission to latin America by v. J. M. 0 Ottawa it. Hon c d _ Howe minister of Trade and Commerce with a party of leading Canadian businessmen and officers of the Canadian government will be touring latin America during january it is one More indication of this country s Friendly relations countries Canadian government s desire to stimulate even greater Trade. The fact that the minister who is second Only to prime minister l. Laurent in Cabinet is heading the Mission shows the importance which the Canadian govern ment attaches to the tour. Senior executives of companies interested Iii Selling in that Market travel with or Howe As will key civil servants interested in greater Trade being developed with latin America will go armed with facts and figures. The statistics reproduced from the painting Lee Winnipeg Art gallery. Democracy in trouble the British party str total supplies this is indeed a grim picture especially when it is considered that the population of the United kingdom grew by several Mil Lions Between 1939 and 195i. There is actually a much smaller Supply of meat for a much larger number of people. The conclusion drawn by United kingdom authorities is that there is Little Hope that an adequate Supply of meat will be available to the United King Tom from the Sterling area along for Many years. Indeed their ish Republic which used to be a of Supply is now Christ Mas in the past nostalgic. Memories of Christ Mases Long past Are recalled in Jan article by lady Violet Bon Ham Carter in the current Issue of the National review. Lady Violet is the daughter of lord Asquith and her recollections re late to the Christmas celebrations of the Asquith at their country Home. Those who remember the dignified countenance and figure of the then prime minister of eng land will be amused always had a servants Ball at Christmas. My father no dancing Man opened it with the Cook in a quadrille firmly propelled and wheeled through its intricacies As though on Cas Tor s. And Here in a paragraph is described the passing of an Era i remember once creeping unseen into the empty dining room in which the Christmas feast was spread and seeing there the Butler alone and for the first time motionless As Stone he was gazing at his Side Board in a rapt trance of contemplation the curved and varnished tongues frilled hams pheasants and partridges in pairs Stilton and Cheddar cheeses. I overheard the Cri de Coeur which broke from my what a Beautiful he Murm ured to himself. It was the pure emotion of an artist hailing a masterpiece of his own Mak ing Paganini every now and then a Manu script of one of the old masters is found. The Manchester guardian s correspondent at Rome reports that the Long missing Solo part of Paganini s unpublished fourth violin concerto in d minor has been found at Parma among waste paper which was about to be sold. The orchestral parts of this concerto were found 15 years ago. Paganini started the work in 1829 and finished it one year later. For some reason the com Poser kept the Solo and orchestral parts separate and not until now has the Complete score been found. The concerto was performed by Paganini and was rated above the earlier ones. From the Golden. Books from the first Snow fall by James Russell Lowell the Snow had begun in the e gloaming and busily All the night had been heaping Field and Highway with a silence deep and White. Every Pine and fir and hem lock wore Ermine Lor an Earl and the poorest Twig on the Elm tree was tinged Inch deep with Pearl. From Sheds new roofed with Carrara came Chanticleer s muffled Crow the stiff rails softened to swans Down and still fluttered Down the Snow i stood and watched by t h e window the noiseless work of the sky and the sudden flurries i Snow Birds like Brown leaves whirling by. To Ondon the "british1 i a parliament has risen for its month Long recess after one of the most undignified two months in its history. Or. Chur chills ministers have been determined to make Progress with their limited legislative programme the labor party has. Beeh equally determined to delay it. The result is a squalid struggle in which the govern ment has acted i liberally and the opposition has acted undemocratic ally. The Root of the trouble is that on the government s two major Bills to de nationalize the steel Industry and Road trans argument is stale. The issues have been before the Public too Long for either Side to have anything new to say moreover neither believes in its heart that nationalization is really of major importance be Side the great problems of eco nomic survival and of , affairs to which no answers have been found on either the right or the the whole proceedings begin therefore with an air of unreal Ity. Labor nationalized Many industries. The conservatives propose to leave some alone and de nationalize two labor says it will re nationalize them. In Plain commonsense this to ind fro creates an impossible situation. In the Long run dem cratic government cannot sur Vive if it Means that tie ownership and Structure of major industries Are to be changed Vith each electoral shift. Though neither is prepared to Ive Way at this stage both parties know perfectly Well that some agreed solution will even rally have to be accepted. De nationalisation measures the element of artificiality and stateless is heightened by he history of the de nationalize Tion measures. In the first flush enthusiasm after their elec Ion Victory the conservatives proposed to carry out both in tie first session of this Parlia ment. In fact for a variety of reasons but chiefly their own indecision and Lack of prepare they made no Progress with either the programme for the second session is therefore a repetition of the first. This makes the government More set on haste this time and it also encourages the opposition to put up further resistance. The result would in any circumstances be to up Strain on the parliamentary machine and to emitter feel ing Between the parties but i is greatly heightened by the narrowness of the govern ment s majority. This Means first that Mem Bers must be chained to con Stant attendance lest the government should be Defeated on by t. W. K. A snap vote. Secondly it Means hat parliament itself must be abnormally preoccupied with legislation. The usual procedure of conducting the detailed Dis Cussion of Bills in a committee or Titch meets in the morn no and leaves parliament it self for More general de cannot be followed the government could not be sure of keeping a majority in com Mittee. Resorted to the Guillotine the committee stage of the de nationalization measures is therefore being conducted in the whole House. Business is consequently congested. The opposition could easily talk enough prevent the passage of the two ills even within the next twelve months. To thwart this the government has Guillotine i to Sei limits to the discussing each clause of the legislation. The Guillotine is. In the circumstances inevitable but it makes a mockery of free Dis Cussion and gives opposition members some basis for feeling aggrieved a group of Back benches especially the militant socialists on the left of the party have exploited this feeling to justify p u r e 1 y obstructionist tactics parliamentary procedure was historically devised to give the minority Freedom to criticize. By that very fact it irresponsible opposition great Power to make a nuisance of itself. Labor members have been talking for hours simply in order to waste time on routine measures about which there is no real dispute. This is Only one example. Whert the first Day of a debate on steel was prolonged into the Early morn ing and most conservative members quite reasonably went Home some labor members seized the Opportunity to count out the House and thereby disrupt the programme. This was a Gross breach of Normal parliamentary Good manners. Soon afterwards a trifling incident was. Used to wasted time on a quite unjustified debate accusing the Deputy speaker of partiality and incompetence. Frivolous Points of order and other Means of wasting time have been countless. The Culm . Was reached when the opposition engaged in pro longed and shameful booing of or. Churchill r. At this Point even the very left Wing journal Thev new statesman and nation Feit compelled to say that such behaviour did the labor party no credit. More important it makes the whole institution of parliament look ridiculous. T o. The Public. In the Long run the effect on members themselves. even worse the Steril. Ity of the. Trif Ling and rowdiness combined with the heed to be present so. Much of the time is making a political career increasingly unattractive to men of ability and wide interests. These Are serious problems. Many men in both parties Are deeply concerned about them. Democratic government cannot go on in Way very Long. Some palliative have been suggested but they Are not very convincing. Fundamentally Only two solutions Are pos ithe Gulf Between the Opin ions of the might be lessened either change of View or by shifting the emphasis to things which matter More than nationalization and opinions Are less rigid. That is one , but it depends on a conscious Effort by both parties and in. Fact the Gulf Between them is. At present widening As labor moves to the left. The second possibility is some form of constitutional Reform that would give a bigger poli tical incentive. To moderation. This is the line along which More and More people Are be ginning to think and which May gain great political importance next year. A picture Ada s phenomenal Industrial growth. The government and private business spokesmen will speak of this country s com Mercial aspirations. They Wii attract attention in latin Amer Ica to Canada As a possible Market for the products of those countries and As a source of Supply of commodities which the latin americans require it is first time Canada has sent missions to latin America. Over the years there have been several official an Semi official missions. The can Adian government in conjunction with the c an Adian chamber of Commerce and the Canadian manufacturers Asso elation sent a Large delegation to Buenos Aires in March 1931, when the Canadian Pavi lion at the British Empire exhibition was opened. Visit were also made at that time Uruguay and Brazil. Previous Tours Guay Venezuela Colombia the dominican Republic Haiti Cuba and Mexico. They will be visited in that order. The Mission will Call at the capital of each country and in addition will Call at Sao Paulo in Brazil. It s scheduled to leave Ottawa Jan. And return feb. 10. Trade Between Canada and he nine countries to be visited Las been steadily rising. The aggregate value of Trade in 951 amounted to compared with Only n 1938, immediately prior to he second world War. Caha Ian have risen in value from to during those 13 years. This increase shows How great Are the possibilities of he latin american Market for Canadian goods. It illustrates also How much can be accomplished by continuous and Intel. Wigent efforts to sell in that area. Canadian imports from the. Nine countries increased in value from in 1938 to in 1951. The personnel Hon. James a. Mackinnon former minister of and Commerce headed a Trade mis Sion to South America in 1941, and in february 1946, he visited Mexico Guatemala Al Sal Vador Honduras Nicaragua Costa Rica Panama and colom Bia. Another indication of can Ada s growing America was the appointment recently of ambassadors to Colombia Uruguay Atud be of the first functions of these officers will be to Wel come or. Howe and the Trade Mission. Canada now Lia Diplo Matic missions at nine capitals in latin America. Of the countries to be visited by this latest Trade mis Sion Are Brazil Argentina uru personnel of the Mission will include the following business men or. D. W. Ambridge president and general Man Ager of the Abi Tibi Power and paper company Toronto. He is representing the Canadian chamber of Commerce. Or. Clive b. Davidson Secretary of the Canadian wheat Board Winnipeg or. K. F. Wads Worth president and general manager of the Maple Leaf milling company Toronto or. Frank l. Marshall director of Export for Joseph Seagram and sons Montreal and president of the Canadian inter american association or. James s. Dun can chairman and president of Massey Harris company Tor onto representing the Cana Dian manufacturers Assoc a citation or. Alex. Gray presi Dent of the Gray Bonney tool company Toronto representing the Canadian exporters association and or. Jean Marie Bonin general manager of la cooperative agricole de Gran by Granby Quebec represent ing la Chambre de Commerce de Quebec. Government officers on the Mission will include or. W. Frederick Bull Deputy minis Ter of Trade and Commerce or. Jules Leger assistant under Secretary of state for external affairs or. Alfred Savard area Trade officer Canadian Trade commissioner service or. A. Schwarzmann of the International Trade relations Branch department of Trade and Commerce and Wing commander Frank Bell con ducting officer on the Mission. Eis. One of the endearing Lali ties of Virginia that she appreciated the Reader and rated his place High in this world. She said in a tribute Pney too rarely paid by authors Calls for est qualities of imagination in sight and far cry this from1 the attitude of most of her colleagues. To hear them one would Ima Gine this intimate relationship Between writer and Reader to be something very different from that described in miss Woolf s talk a shot gun wed Ding rather in which one of the participants has married be Neath his class and Only the harsh tradition of mountains requires that the arrange ment be perpetuated. Most authors Are impatient with us readers seem to consider we do not pay them due Honor and feel that our affection is either transitory or based on an appreciation of the wrong qualities in. Them. Done Jbell s sinking of the titanic by Job Unis in the London Spectator the death recently of one of the few survivors of the sinking of the liner titanic forty years ago brings Back vividly the sensation which that disaster caused. The liner time the largest her construction launching and her Depar Ture on her Maiden voyage had aroused Najuch the same Public interest As the same events in the career of the Queen Eliza bet Twenty eight Yean later. Completed. One morning that april i. Saw from the top of a bus in the strand a newspaper placard with the startling legend titanic w. T. Stead was known to be a passenger. I suppose every paper in Lon Don wire Essed to Send it a Story. Certainly the paper o which i was news editor did Silt Stead sent no we one of the fifteen Hundred who went Down Chip of jul full Speed the Maiden voyage was never Uga Init an iceberg. Yet we readers have done Well by writers. If. We always rewarded the Good in their lifetime we have usually remembered them after death. In fact such is our generosity that often we have rewarded Only too who do not deserve it 1 no one will deny that As readers our taste on occasion has been execrable appreciation niggardly. We have committed All the faults that it is humanly possible to commit yet on the average Over the results Are Good Anc our verdicts just. For this at least we deserve Praise. Ours is not an easy task we have Little enough to guide us. Even so distinguished a authority As c. A Montague has admitted the impossibility Klee by f. B. W. Of answering the ultimate ques virtue of what do these intrinsically Plain arrange ments of quite common words carry the germs of a rare and Noble fever of the soul from a person Long dead to. Persons living in another age and per haps at the other end of the world is it when masked in print the written word retains the Power of the spoken voice to give Subtle guarantee of its own authenticity if authentic it be so that in print is Well As in speech the same words May stir us deeply in Case and leave us quite cold in another does some intimation reach us that that one Man has written should be expected to do so. Yet it is fact that we have Man aged somehow to separate what is false from what is True. We. Have dallied perhaps too often and too. Long among the half truths half statements and we have come Back in the end surf edited and have sought the purer truth of _ we have caught and held on to Lovely lines by an instinct which in some obscure fashion digs surely what is Best out of mountains of rubbish. Asked Little we have done this and asked Little of our partners except that they be honest guides. The act of surrender is ours and with it goes a great resp Brisibe Ity on the part of those to whom we punishment for the author who is a fraud is at worst oblivion a Light penalty indeed for those them with an with the Power to corrupt As other Only As the j if or. Montague was not prepared to provide the answer to his own question few of us today s scripture he said unto them when be Pray say our father which Art in heaven hallowed be thy name. Thy kingdom come. Thy will As in heaven so in Earth. Give us Flay by Day our daily bread. And forgive us our sins Foi we also forgive every one that 15 indebted to us. And Lead us not into temp tation but deliver us from evil. Birthdays it. Hon7 lenient r. Thee born Wescott Putney eng land january 3, 1883. T. K. Deacon Winnipeg born Perth ont january 3, 1865. James Wilson Winnipeg born Bel fast Ireland january 3, 1878. Harold Orchard Miami Man. Born port Hoover ont Janu Ary 3, 1873. Well As uplift to degrade As Well As to inspire. We have the right we readers to demand that authors do not give Way to i contemporary prejudice that they do not become the servant of politics or that they do not join the Parade of professional literary anaesthetists now growing Ever longer. Yet no matter what the faults of authors we will be suitably grateful for what we receive because Reading is a filial plea sure. With miss Woolf we can dream that when the Day of judgment dawns and. The Graat conquerors and lawyers and statesmen receive their rewards. The Al mighty will turn to Peter and will say not without a certain envy when he sees us coming with books under our arms look these need no Reward. We have nothing to give them Here. They have loved ;